Help Philipo Save Lions

Location: Tanzania, Africa

Philipo is a warrior for lions.

It wasn’t always so. With human wildlife conflict on the rise in his village in Tanzania Philipo used to hate lions. You see, as human populations encroach on wild places lions get to close too livestock. And as you can imagine, Maaisai farmers like Philipo don’t like that.

They resort to killing lions if they prey on their livestock. However, Philipo met Patti from Pennsylvania a few years back. And Patti loves lions. Well, the two of them made an agreement. If Patti found a solution to keep lions away from the cattle bomas Philipo would champion the cause for lions.

Lights save lions

To make a long story short. Lights keep lions away from cattle bomas at night. Patti came up with a unique design and set up. Now Philipo is on board and saving lions. And the Tanzania Lion Illumination Project was born.

However, although a rather simple concept, creating these lights and the accompanying equipment to be rugged enough is not. Philipo and Patti experimented for some time. Now it seems they’ve found a reproducible system.